Step back to an awfully ancient time when pharaohs were phoul servants suffered & everyone believed in an awesome afterlife. Discover the dire details of mummy-making the truth about Tutankhamun & his creepy curse & find out why people worshipped a dung beetle. History with the nasty bits left in! 2013 is HORRIBLE HISTORIES twentieth anniversary. ...

Step back to an awfully ancient time when pharaohs were phoul servants suffered & everyone believed in an awesome afterlife. Discover the dire details of mummy-making the truth about Tutankhamun & his creepy curse & find out why people worshipped a dung beetle. With a bold accessible new look these bestselling titles are sure to be a huge hit with yet another generation of Terry Deary fans. Revised by the author to make Horrible Histories more accessible to young readers. 2013 is HORRIBLE HISTORIES twentieth anniversary. ...

Gilbert de Rideford is a Knight of the Temple of Solomon & an old acquaintance from Crowner John's crusading days. He claims to have come into possession of a secret that could shake Christendom to its foundations
- & he desperately needs John's help to escape from the secretive order of warrior monks. Suddenly swept into a world of religious intrigue & dangerous politics Crowner John finds himself undertaking a life-threatening mission to the Island of Lundy
- inhabited solely by notorious pirates
- until finally the awful secret itself is revealed.


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Stranded in Portsmouth John Pearce has once again failed to secure the release of those who depended on him his fellow Pelicans. They have been shipped off to the Mediterranean while he was indulging himself in London. So he must take ship & follow them. His application to William Pitt for a place finds him as 8th lieutenant on HMS Victory flagship of Admiral Lord Hood. South & ahead of him his Pelicans are serving under a flogging captain but all is not lost as each of the gang does what he can to promote himself O Hagan fights to establish his place in the below decks hierarch; Taverner carves out a niche where his trickery can work to the gang s advantage; Gherson ends up as secretary to Rear Admiral Ralph Barclay. As the action moves to the main French Mediterranean port of Toulon the tension between crews & captains intensifies coming to a brilliant head when the HMS Brilliant is detached from the fleet under the orders of Captain Horatio Nelson bound for North Africa. ...

Danny Wallace is a man. & a man is a very tricky thing to be these days. Trouble is everywhere. Embarrassment follows closely behind. Whether accidentally insulting a friends baby being caught wearing pyjamas by his wife or nadvertently following a woman down a very dark street Danny is no stranger to awkward situations. As we follow a year in Dannys life in which he blunders from one bewildering social situation to the next it becomes clear that here is a man who struggles even to look after himself properly. & then an even greater responsibility looms on the horizon... ...

In the gloom it came along the branches towards me its round hypnotic eyes blazing its spoon-like ears turning to & fro independently like radar dishes.. .it was Lewis Carrolls Jabberwocky come to life.. .one of the most incredible creatures I had ever been privileged to meet. The fourth largest island in the world Madagascar is home to woodlice the size of golf balls moths the size of Regency fans & the Aye-Aye a type of lemur held by local superstion to be an omen of death. But when Gerald Durrell visited the island the destruction of the forests meant that the Aye-Aye & many other creatures were in danger of extinction. Told with his unique sense of humour & inimitable charm Gerald Durrells The Aye Aye & I" is the final adventure from one Britains best loved conservationists." ...

Perfect for day trips & short breaks the OS Landranger Map series covers Great Britain with 204 detailed maps. Each map provides all the information you need to get to know your local area &

Includes:: places of interest tourist information picnic areas & camp sites plus Rights of Way information for England & Wales.

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Aylesbury Then & Now looks back at long forgotten views of the town & takes a look at what is there today. Most will have changed beyond all recognition while a few areas remain much the same. The town has had distinct periods in which there were great changes. The 1860s saw Market Square lose its central buildings & have Great Western Street & Exchange Street appear on the map for the first time. The 1920s & 30s saw lots of houses being built & the 1960s witnessed unprecedented change with the County Offices & Friars Square Shopping Centre being built together with the ring road dual carriageway which obliterated historic areas of the town. As we move into the twenty-first century Aylesbury is undergoing further changes with the building of the new Waterside Theatre. This is the start of a regeneration of the canal basin area. One thing is certain the town continues to change with every new generation that comes along. These photographs tell that story in vivid detail. ...

Professor Langdon St. Ives brilliant but eccentric scientist & explorer is at home in Aylesford with his family. Not far away a steam launch is taken by pirates the crew murdered & a grave is possibly robbed of the skull. The suspected grave robber the infamous Dr. Ignacio Narbondo is an old nemesis of St. Ives. When Narbondo kidnaps his son Eddie St. Ives races into London in pursuit. ...

Perfect for day trips & short breaks the OS Landranger Map series covers Great Britain with 204 detailed maps. Each map provides all the information you need to get to know your local area &

Includes:: places of interest tourist information picnic areas & camp sites plus Rights of Way information for England & Wales.

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